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Chapter 5 · Douay–Rheims / Challoner

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Chapter 5 · Open to read

From Isaias · Douay–Rheims / Challoner (1749–1752)

What does Isaias Chapter 5 say, and which statements belong to its speaker?

Atlas of Saints · Chapter summary

The chapter’s images and exact conditions retain their admitted wording. Prophetic words and separately labeled edition material remain distinct. The account preserves sequence without invented scenes or universal outcome guarantees.

Chapter breakdown

Isaias 5 sings to beloved a cousin's vineyard canticle: vineyard on fruitful hill, fenced, cleared of stones, choicest vines, tower and winepress, expected grapes but wild grapes. A separate edition note identifies cousin as Christ through Davidic kinship and gives literal hill wording, horn, son of oil. Jerusalem and Juda are asked to judge owner and vineyard and consider what more could be done. Owner will remove hedge, break wall, allow waste and trampling, cease pruning and digging, permit briers/thorns and command no rain. Vineyard is Israel and Juda pleasant plant; expected judgment yields iniquity, justice a cry.

Woes address adjoining houses/fields to the place's end; great houses desolate, ten vineyard acres one little measure, thirty seed bushels three. Early-to-evening drinkers feast with harp, lyre, timbrel, pipe and wine but disregard divine works. Lack of knowledge brings captivity, nobles famine and multitude thirst; hell's soul and mouth expand for strong, people, high and glorious. Humans and lofty eyes bow; God exalted in judgment and sanctified justice. Lambs feed in order and strangers eat deserts turned fruitful. Further woes target drawing iniquity by vanity cords/cart rope and demanding hastened divine work/counsel; calling evil good, dark light and bitter sweet and reversals; conceited wisdom; strong drinkers who justify wicked for gifts and take just people's justice. Root becomes ashes, bud dust like fire-consuming stubble because they reject law and blaspheme word.

Wrath strikes people, mountains troubled and corpses dunglike in streets; anger remains and hand outstretched. Sign and whistle summon distant nations swiftly: none faint or labor, slumber or sleep, girdle loosened or shoe-latchet broken. Sharp arrows, bent bows, flintlike hooves and tempest wheels accompany lionlike roaring, seized prey without deliverer and sealike noise. Looking landward reveals tribulation darkness and mist-darkened light. Imperial identity, plagues, sweet/bitter grape taste and psychiatric alcoholism are not specified.

The story inside

Opening: The chapter’s images and exact conditions retain their admitted wording. Development: Prophetic words and separately labeled edition material remain distinct. Conclusion: The account preserves sequence without invented scenes or universal outcome guarantees.

Lessons worth keeping

  1. 1
    The chapter’s images and exact conditions retain their admitted wording.
  2. 2
    Prophetic words and separately labeled edition material remain distinct.
  3. 3
    The account preserves sequence without invented scenes or universal outcome guarantees.

Test your recall

Which images and requests does the speaker use, and what does the chapter leave unresolved?

Source edition and notes

Douay–Rheims, revised by Richard Challoner (1749–1752). Project Gutenberg no. 1581. Locators refer to lines in the admitted pg1581.txt edition. Source notes may include Challoner commentary.

  1. Lines 78884–78889

    5:1. I will sing to my beloved the canticle of my cousin concerning his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a hill in a fruitful place. My cousin.... So the prophet calls Christ, as being of his family and kindred, by descending from the house of David. Ibid. On a hill, etc.... Literally, in the horn, the son of oil.
  2. Lines 78911–78913

    5:7. For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel: and the man of Juda, his pleasant plant: and I looked that he should do judgment, and behold iniquity: and do justice, and behold a cry.
  3. Lines 78956–78958

    5:20. Woe to you that call evil good, and good evil: that put darkness for light, and light for darkness: that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.
  4. Lines 78981–78983

    5:26. And he will lift up a sign to the nations afar off, and will whistle to them from the ends of the earth: and behold they shall come with speed swiftly.

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